Football has always been closely linked to the phenomenon of migration. Since the invention of modern football in England in 1863, humans have been “moving with the ball”, as Matthew Taylor and Pierre Lanfranchi recall in the title of their book published in 2001. And the ball moved very quickly itself, in the suitcases of businessmen and engineers, entrepreneurs and teachers from the British Isles, but also very soon from Switzerland and Central Europe, who spread the game around the world. The fast dissemination of football was greatly helped by the globalisation wave of the end of the 19th century....
